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Queer Lisboa 21 Awards

Tonight
took place the Closing Ceremony of Queer Lisboa 21 – International Queer Film
Festival, in Cinema São Jorge, where the Festival will announce the winners of
the Feature Film Competition, Documentary Competition, Short-Film Competition,
In My Shorts Competition - which awards the Best School Film -, Queer Art
Competition, so as the audience awards.

The Feature Film Competition
Jury, composed by Isabel Abreu, Marcos Rocha and Yann Gonzalez, elected these winners.

The award for Best Feature Film
of Queer Lisboa 21 was handed out to Los Objetos Amorosos (Spain, 2016),
directed by Adrián Silvestre, a
1.000,00€ cash award, sponsored by CheckpointLx.

The Jury gave the award for Best
Actress to both Laura Rojas Godoy and Nicole Costa for their performance in Los
Objetos Amorosos.

The
award for Best Actor was given to Owen
Campbell for his performance in As You
Are (USA, 2016), directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte.

The Audience Award for
Best Feature Film went to Close-Knit (Japão, 2017), directed by Naoko
Ogigami.

The same Jury decided to give a
Special Mention to Corpo Elétrico
(Brazil, 2016), by Marcelo Caetano.

The Documentary Competition Jury, composed by Luísa
Homem, Rui Filipe Oliveira and Sérgio Tréfaut, deliberated to give the Award
for Best Documentary to the film Small Talk (Taiwan, 2016), directed
by Hui-Chen Huang, a 3.000,00€ prize handed out by RTP2 for the purchase of the
exhibition copyright for public television.

The same Jury decided to give a Special Mention to Vivir Y Otras Ficciones (Spain, 2016), directed
by Jo Sol.

The Audience Award for Best Documentary went to Entre
os Homens de Bem (Brazil, 2016), directed
by Caio Cavechini and Carlos Juliano Barros.

The Short Film Competition Jury, composed by Ana Moreira, Jorge Jácome and Francisco Moreira, decided to award Les Îles (France, 2017), directed by Yann Gonzalez,
as Best Short Film, a 1.500,00€ award handed out by RTP2 for the purchase of
the exhibition copyright for public television.

The same Jury gave a Special Mention to Coelho Mau (Portugal,
France, 2017), directed by Carlos Conceição.

The
Audience Award for Best Short Film went to Tailor
(Brazil, 2017), by Calí
dos Anjos.

The In My Shorts Competition Jury, composed by João Villas-Boas, Nádia
Henriques and Ricardo Vieira Lisboa, decided to give the Award for Best School
Short Film to Étage X (Alemanha,
2016), by Francy Fabritz.

The same Jury also gave two
special mentions to Loris Sta Bene (Itália,
2017), by Simone Bozzelli, e Rute (Portugal,
2017), by Ricardo Branco.

The Queer Art Competition Jury, composed by Carlota Lagido, Colby Keller and
João Onofre, decided to give the Award for Best Queer Art Film to Occidental (France, 2017), directed by
Neïl Beloufa.

The same Jury gave a Special
Mention to A Destruição de Bernardet (Brazil,
2016), directed by Claudia Priscilla and Pedro Marques.

Queer Lisboa 20 closes with a
positive note this special edition, screening 90 films from 32 countries. Nest
year Queer Lisboa 21 will take place from 14th to 22nd
September 2018.